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For a year, Richard Redfield has worked in the Dead Letter department of the post office. Accustomed to days of quiet tedium, he is shocked to discover a cryptic letter that seems to reference the death of his friend two years prior. Filled with twists and suspicious characters, Metta Victoria Fuller Victor’s The Dead Letter is a pioneering crime fiction novel.

Ellen Bunting and her husband are just trying to get by. Struggling to establish a lodging in the city of London proves no easy task, exhausting their finances and threatening their mental health. When a mysterious lodger arrives and pays a month up front, they can’t turn him down. The Lodger is a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes.

In 1740, Jamaican Maroons—descendants of Africans who escaped slavery and fled to the mountains—signed a treaty with colonial authorities that made it even more difficult for runaway slaves to survive. In the 1770s, a runaway known as Three-Fingered Jack became infamous for defying the British government. The Life and Exploits of Three-Finger’d Jack is a book by William Burdett.

While sitting in a London café, the narrator spots a strange man with stark white hair. The next time their paths cross, he makes a point of introducing himself and gaining the man’s trust. Soon, Mr. Peter Brown shares the tragic story of his life. The Tale of Mr. Peter Brown is a short story by Vita Sackville-West.

In May 1892, Ida B. Wells published an editorial in the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight reporting on the recent lynching of eight Black men across the American South. Angered by her criticism of the common “alarm about raping white women, ” a group of white men destroyed the newspaper’s office. Southern Horrors is a pamphlet by Ida B. Wells.

Inspired by Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, Nellie Bly embarked on a 24, 899-mile journey. Not to be outdone by crosstown rival the New York World, Cosmopolitan sent one of its young reporters to race Bly across the globe. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trap Around the World is a travel memoir by Elizabeth Bisland.

In eighteenth century Paris, status is everything. Anadea, though poor, has used her family’s noble status to secure a marriage to a wealthy cavalier. One night, she meets the roguish Count Blessure, who causes her to question everything. Witty and tragic, The Fatal Secret: Or, Constancy in Distress is a story of identity and desire by Eliza Haywood.

Youth, beauty, a vast inheritance—Miranda and her sister Althea seem to have everything they could ever want. When Miranda marries the rakish Clitander, she does so for love, assuming his motives are honorable. Soon, he shows his true colors. Witty and tragic, The Mercenary Lover is a story of identity and desire by Eliza Haywood.

Disguised as a prostitute, a maid, a widow, and an anonymous lover, one woman carries out four heated affairs—with one man. Although her experiment begins as a matter of curiosity, the narrator soon finds it difficult to separate truth from fiction. Witty and tragic, Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze is a story of identity and desire by Eliza Haywood.

In Maroon Medicine, the first collection of short stories published by a Caribbean writer, Mr. Watson, an unsuspecting peasant, uses his wit to outsmart his more physically capable neighbors. Inspired by West African folklore about the spider-trickster spirit Anansi, Maroon Medicine is a brilliant and frequently funny collection of tales by Jamaican author E. A. Dodd.

While walking with her husband in the woods, Sylvia Tebrick suddenly transforms into a fox. Terrified at first, they adjust to their new life. Although she first maintains many of her human characteristics, Sylvia soon begins to show a troubling wild side. Awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Lady into Fox is a novel by David Garnett.

Young and in love, John Cromartie and Josephine Lackett want to get married. But as their relationship gets more and more serious, Josephine fears disappointing her aristocratic family by marrying a working-class man. When she gets cold feet, John chooses to live among the animals at the zoo. A Man in the Zoo is a novel by David Garnett.

“Shortly we will plunge within the frigid gloom, / Farewell swift summer brightness, all too short…” Composed over a period of twenty years, these poems of love, lust, beauty, death, and suffering revolutionized modern poetry. Censored for decades for its descriptions of erotic and disturbing scenes, The Flowers of Evil remains one of Charles Baudelaire’s most celebrated literary works.

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New Job. New Faces. New Challenges. Wyatt has settled into his role as Alpha of Godwin County and the town of Precious. Lyssa has moved to Precious full-time, only traveling to Chicago for Shifter Council meetings. Life is good. But Wyatt's peace shatters when Miles arrives and says, "Lad, we need to talk." Join Wyatt as he uncovers a truth that will change the shifters' world forever. Get your copy today!

New Job. New Faces. New Challenges. Wyatt has settled into his role as Alpha of Godwin County and the town of Precious. Lyssa has moved to Precious full-time, only traveling to Chicago for Shifter Council meetings. Life is good. But Wyatt's peace shatters when Miles arrives and says, "Lad, we need to talk." Join Wyatt as he uncovers a truth that will change the shifters' world forever. Get your copy today!

The point of this book is to explore my ideas for sartorial satisfaction, to tell the stories associated with my love of clothes and fashion, and to share the message of accidental sustainability.' When Peta Mathias dug through the clothes she had stored away for twenty years in her shed, she realised it was full of valuable, beautiful items that were crying out to be worn again: 'Fashion is mysterious, irresistible and alluring . . . they are...

Death is the last lover you will ever know. SOA Special Agent Patrick Collins has lived a life full of lies, and it has finally caught up with him. There's no denying his past any longer, not after giving up the truth to save himself from a murder charge. But truth alone can't set Patrick free, and time is running out to stop the Dominion Sect from turning his father into a god. Jonothon de Vere knows survival isn't a guarantee, but he's d...

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